Category Archives: Essential Oils

We’ve all been there: the middle seat of an airplane. No view out the window, no easy access to the aisle, and to make things worse, both fellow travelers have nasty coughs.

Ok, maybe we haven’t had that experience to the T, but middle seat or not, germs are in great abundance in airports and planes. A renowned study found in the Journal of Environmental Health Research informs its readers that chances for catching a cold could increase 100 times in a plane than you would be living your typical lifestyle.

The last thing I want is to feel unwell on a business trip or family vacation!

So, behold: the ultimate list of essential oil travel tips! Actually, to avoid this post being several thousand words long, I will just make it my top 5.

Oil #1: doTERRA On Guard®.

On Guard acts as an immune booster. This is a great one if you’re wanting to travel fear-free. It’s especially great to have on hand when traveling during holidays in the winter when everyone seems to be under the weather.

Oil #2: Melaleuca

It calms minor skin irritations. You never know what your skin will come in contact with when traveling! This oil is a must have when using air-travel.

Oil #3: Peppermint

Another point of focus when you travel is keeping it fresh. Peppermint is practically synonymous with fresh. It can help keep you awake simply by breathing it in, and it can keep you cool by adding a drop to your water or applying it to your feet or back of your neck. It also can work wonders for your breath. Sure is handy to have around, especially when you packed your toothbrush…who knows where?

Oil #4: doTERRA Deep Blue Soothing Blend

After a long day of travel, nothing beats the feeling of a cool and soothing touch from a Deep Blue oil roller bottle. It can relax sore and tense muscles after a long day’s travel.

Oil #5: Lavender

Summer travel, or travel any time of the year means the sun is shining. Lavender is amazing for soothing skin, especially after it has been exposed to some extra sunshine!

Traveling with essential oils has helped take a serious load off of my shoulders. If you have yet to try essential oils, Click HERE to watch an INTRO webinar about essential oils! If you have tried oils before: what oils are your favorite to travel with?

Hey, I know you’ve got a lot to do and you’re probably amazing at staying super calm, patient and clear minded all the time … haha but in case you’re like me and you need a little help with that, I’m going to give you my top 3 tricks to getting in your zen space, even when you have a lot to do!

Tip 1: Meditation

Three years ago, I hired a meditation teacher for about $150 an hour to my house and train me on his techniques and it was amazing.

About once a week

What I needed was DAILY practice, but I lacked the discipline and know how to give this gift to myself so when I found this app, I was ecstatic.

Did you know that in under 30 minutes a day, Harvard researchers found that meditation will actually chain your brain chemistry?

It decreases your fight or flight response and increases your rational thinking ability, the problem with most people is they feel they don’t have TIME.

This handy little app will give you 5 minute meditation options all the way up to an hour and even sends you REMINDERS throughout the day.

Imagine me in my office at 1pm, hours into my work day getting a reminder that says, “Are you present?” I love it! It’s just what I need!

Tip 2: Peppermint & In Tune Essential Oils

So of course, you knew this was coming, an essential oil tool and the reason I love these babies is because they do the work for you!

A few months ago, I woke up every day for three days with brain fog. I couldn’t get my mind clear and it was really frustrating me. I’d look at my work schedule and I felt like my communication was hazy and losing impact. On the third day, I was driving to pick up my daughter from her friends house and my mind completely cleared. I felt like the foggy glass I had been looking through was shining perfectly bright again.

“Wow, maybe a drive was all I needed,” I thought.

But then I remembered I put In tune on the back of my neck right before I left the house and I started to laugh.

Duh! Why didn’t I use this oil three days ago?!

That’s how I got my testimony of in tune and peppermint has a similar effect on me. I keep a roller bottle in my purse at all times and have been known to use it on strangers I’ve just met (with permission, of course

I love to diffuse peppermint and wild orange in my office during the day because it keeps me alert.

Think about that for a moment.
You might not feel like you want to put in that kind of effort or even spend that money, but how much are you LOSING because your mind is not working on maximum impact.

For me, an hour at work at my highest level is worth 3 or 4 hours of time on a lower energy level. I can’t afford *not to do these things!

TIP 3: Create Your TOP 3

Top 3 is a little phrase in my community that signals us to the highest, most effective action that will yield the highest results that we want.

I keep notecards handy in my office and my desk, and haha, I’ve even been known to keep these in my bathroom vanity because for some reason, I get mad inspiration when I’m doing my hair. Go figure, BUT…

let’s say I want to increase my sales for the month and that’s my goal.

Here’s what I WOULD NOT Do.

I wouldn’t walk around thinking, “I wonder if we’re going to make it.”
I wouldn’t check every single team in my back office and if I see any kind of lag, think, “Oh no, we’re not going to get there.’ Blah. Gross. That makes me want to vomit.

I would go to a much HIGHER place, of belief, radical positivity and massive action.

Here’s how to use TOP 3.

**Write on a note card what you want. Mine might look like this: We break $2 million in sales this month. (I write it in the present tense as though it exists NOW.)

**Then, I write down my TOP 3 effective actions for me to do that will get me the highest results. Only 3. I focus all my energy on HIGHEST IMPACT.

I might write down…

Close all my new leads. Do an enrollment webinar Promote incentives to builders

I go all out on action, not stress.

During that time, here’s what I would NOT do.
Surf social media, bob around here and there with my activities.
Nope. I’d become super protective of my time and DO EXACTLY what was going to get me where I wanted to go.

It would keep my head clear and my emotions calm so I could use that energy to MOVE
(not to stress!)

So…there you go!

Remember, you really can do this.
You can achieve the big goals you have in your life and keep your mind calm and clear at the same time!

The average person slathers, lathers, rubs, and sprays 10 different skin care products on his or her body every day–and since our skin acts more like a sponge than a barrier, we absorb the nearly 130 chemicals we regularly expose ourselves to.

Don’t worry, I’ve got your back!

For centuries, people have used essential oils for skin due to their soothing, purifying, and calming characteristics. doTERRA’s natural skin care products deliver the safe alternative you’re looking for!

If you are looking for a natural way to lessen the presence of fine lines and wrinkles, then the Immortelle essential oil blend was created with you in mind. Immortelle Anti-Aging blend can help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles when applied to the neck, face, and décolletage.

This is one of my favorite oils and I use it at least three times a day around my eyes!
Plus, the entire skin care line (of course!)

The one decision that dramatically increased my income was to take 25 of my current coaching clients and introduce them to essential oils!

But I was so bad at it in the beginning, I literally stumbled into this business on a single burst of inspiration followed by waves of flaws. That’s the truth! For the first 18 months, I had no idea what I was doing.

The business worked anyway.

On Thursday, I’m going to tell you WHY.

You’ll learn about the business model and what makes it run–or not.

You’ll learn why people buy it again and again. (It has the highest repeat purchase percentages above any other kind.)

You’ll also learn how to incorporate it into what you are ALREADY doing. (No, you don’t have to be amazing at essential oils or have it be your main thing!)

*Download Exact Step by Step Map
*Behind the Scenes Tour of Top Producer Practices
*3 Essential Secrets for Success
*Most Common Mistakes that Cause Failure
*Interview for a Top Spot on My Team with 1 on 1 Mentoring
*Secret Formula So You Don’t Pressure Friends & Family

You may know that I personally love essential oils and also have a large wellness community, but you probably don’t know how it got started and the personal problems I had that got me hooked on the oils in the first place

Here’s the untold part of the story…

In 2010, I had been a struggling author and talk radio show host for five years (making about $50 a month) who at long last was introduced to the world of internet marketing and quickly found my fire. Within a year, I had sold over 6 figures of products and programs and in 2012, I had created my own systems to help other wellness businesses develop products, and market and sell them online.

I loved the work I was doing. I had great clients and I was making more money than I had ever dreamed of, but … almost no one knew I was suffering terribly from post traumatic stress due to childhood trauma.

I was mostly silent about this issue and trying to handle it on my own.

My life was beyond my wildest dreams. I had a great husband, four amazing kids and a thriving business, but I felt so awful inside, and I was struggling to make it through each day. I was constantly fighting emotional pain, low energy, and anxiety.

One day a friend sent me a box of essential oils and I literally said out loud, “This is weird.”

Then I opened one of the bottles and the aroma of fresh oranges filled the air. My low spirits lifted immediately and right then and there I was hooked. If something so small could help me feel this good, I needed it!

I signed up for the monthly purchasing program and for the next year I used oils religiously. I craved them like oxygen and began to count on them for so many things — sleep, high energy, immunity, emotional balance, and staying calm to I make it through my life day by day.

According to my husband, I began to sprinkle oils on everything in sight, including him! He was a dentist and would feel under the weather about once a week from being exposed to so many germs from his patients. As soon as he started taking On Guard, he felt great all the time and became a big believer, sharing the oils with his staff and patients.

The more I researched oils, the more I found. They could literally do thousands of things! (check out my new E-Book, 101 Uses for Essential Oils That Will Blow Your Mindhttp://HeatherMadder.com/oils

I looked forward to my order arriving every month. We started using vitamins, hair care, skin care, all the products were toxin free, high quality and creating a long last a wellness environment for me and my family.

About a year later, I was upstairs in my house — I still remember where I was standing —

and the Voice of Inspiration spoke to me and said, “Sell essential oils.”

“How?” I wondered, but I decided to take action on the prompting, even though I didn’t know the answer.

The next week I called my coaching clients and shared with them how much the oils had done for me and I offered them essential oil kit options along with coaching packages from me.

I enrolled about 25 people during the next few months and then simply went back to the world I knew–business coaching.

A few months later, checks were still rolling in from dōTERRA even though I wasn’t selling oils at the time.

First $100, then $200, then $400. I called it “mad shoe money” back then because extra surprise spending money showed up in my mailbox each month. When a $764 check arrived, I was so intrigued, I called my friend who had recently started the dōterra business to ask her what in the world was going on with this company. She told me how fast the oil business was growing and how many people’s lives it was changing. I soon realized checks were coming to me because the people I had enrolled were still buying oils and recruiting other people. They loved the products like I did — that was obvious.

I decided to give the business a try for two reasons.

The oils had done so much for me and I knew that it was going to work. They had changed my life and I wanted to be involved in something that would do the same for others. If other people loved them half as much as I did, they would keep buying. Secondly, I wanted to be a part of a larger community. I had been in business for myself all this time and I worked hard–really hard for everything I had. If I ever took time off, my income would stop immediately. I craved support, help from a community, and a secure financial future I could count on.

Shortly after my commitment to build the business, I rose to the top ranks of the company and I never looked back. In 2014, my husband David sold his dental practice and began to build dōTERRA with me as a joint partner and now my kids have both parents at home full time who build a life mission around our family and we’ve never been happier!

Today, this wellness community (a gift from God and the hands of so many others!) sells $25 million a year and reaches into 35 countries.

It all started when a single drop of orange oil lifted the weary spirits of a struggling woman.

Today, I am blown away by what the oils have done for me, my family and so many people we know.

That’s why I am so excited to share them with other people, and you’ll notice that I’ve been talking about them more and more right alongside my coaching programs, because they are a TOOL you can use to enhance every single aspect of life. Plus, the purpose we have found in empowering other people’s lives brings us true fulfillment and we want to share that!

Every day we make an effort to express our gratitude for what we have and thank God for leading us here, because He knew the way.

He knew a drop of orange would lift the spirit of a silently struggling woman and I needed the oils for my healing journey. He knew I’d follow the direction I had been given — sell the oils, even though I didn’t know how. He knew mad shoe money would turn into a full time career for both me and my husband.

If you’re reading this and you’ve been struggling with emotional burdens, low energy or health issues, or you’ve been interested in oils, why don’t you send me an email and we can chat.

Who knows what might happen for you.
I can send you some info and samples and will be right there to take great care of you!

I’m so grateful to the person who sent me a box of oils several years ago and I want to be that person for others.

Huge, life changing journeys can often be traced back to a small starting point.

I am creating a WELLNESS HOME for my family, because I want my kids to be bathed in everyday practices that are so familiar to them, THRIVING is a way of LIFE!
(we don’t just use essential oils when we’re sick, we practice wellness each and every day!)

If you’re a Madder, Feeling GREAT is a family standard!

I bet you want that for your kids, too!! So you’ll be interested in watching this video to see how
we have integrated essential oils into our family practices.